Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
BRAM STOKEREnter freely and of your own free will!
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men–even if there are monsters in it.
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It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
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I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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